The Queen will see you now. Another West End transplant has made its way to the U.S. in the form of playwright Peter Morgan’s The Audience, and it has brought a much-celebrated leading lady, Helen Mirren, to Broadway. While Dame Mirren’s performance as the Queen is captivating and anyone with even a slight bit of […]
Last year, I gave a rave review to an off-Broadway play called Hand to God starring a (possibly) satanic puppet named Tyrone McHansley and Jason, the timid, church-going boy who brings Tyrone to life. Well, this shocking and outrageously funny play capitalized on its stellar reviews and is now one of the best shows on […]
Max Baker’s new play Live From the Surface of the Moon at The Wild Project is a frustrating and uncomfortable glimpse at Midwestern suburbia in 1969, juxtaposing vast technological advancements with the backwards sexual and social norms of the time. While Baker’s premise is an intriguing one, his play suffers from a lack of focus […]
Amidst the frenzy to catch all of the new Broadway productions that are opening before Tony Award season, it is important to take a moment to pause and reflect upon the best productions of 2014 (which seems oh SO long ago now). On January 1, My Entertainment World announced the 2014 My Theatre Award nominees […]
We need to talk about a disturbing trend on Broadway that must be stopped. This trend impacts the public at large and, if not curbed soon, could have unsavory consequences for us all. The terrible scourge plaguing mankind? Mediocre (and even bad) plays selling out large Broadway theatres at astronomically high prices strictly because a […]
For the second year in a row, the aptly named “Frigid Festival” has brought frigid temperatures (and snow) to NYC. However, that did not deter me from trudging to the lower east side this past week to see a few of the innovative productions that downtown theatre has to offer. ERIK: A Play About a […]
“Into the woods you go again, you have every now and then.” If you have never been Into the Woods, now is the time. Between Hollywood’s adaptation of this beloved musical, the availability of the original Broadway cast production on Netflix, and stage productions of Stephen Sondheim’s best work popping up across the country, there […]
2014-15 are the years that math and science became incredibly cool in popular culture and a staple of popular entertainment. Two of the hottest Oscar contenders for Best Picture this year chronicle the lives of Stephen Hawking and Alan Turing. The cast of The Big Bang Theory is reaping considerable financial rewards for their television […]